CAMBRIDGE FIELDS GLOBAL SCHOOL

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION

X-Mathematics(Basic)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80

General Instructions :
1. This Question paper contains - five sections A, B, C, D and E. Each section is compulsory.
However, there are internal choices in some questions.
2. Section A has 18 MCQ’s and 02 Assertion-Reason based questions of 1 mark each.
3. Section B has 5 Very Short Answer (VSA)-type questions of 2 marks each.
4. Section C has 6 Short Answer (SA)-type questions of 3 marks each.
5. Section D has 4 Long Answer (LA)-type questions of 5 marks each.
6. Section E has 3 source based/case based/passage based/integrated units of assessment (4
marks each) with sub parts.
SECTION A
(Multiple Choice Questions)
Each question carries 1 mark
1 Sum of the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 𝑝 = 𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 − 3 is?
(A) 1 (B) −3 (C) 3 (D) 0
(B)
2 The value of 𝑥 in the solution of the linear equations 𝑥 + 𝑦 = 14 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 − 𝑦 = 4 is?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) None
(B)
3 For which values of p does the pair of equations given below have infinite solution?
4𝑥 + 𝑝𝑦 + 8 = 0 𝑎𝑛𝑑 2𝑥 + 2𝑦 + 4 = 0
(A) 𝑝 ≠ 4 (B) 𝑝 ≠ 5 (C) 𝑝 = 4 (D) 𝑝 = −4
(B)
4 Discriminant of the quadratic equation 6𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 2 = 0 is
(A) 49 (B) −49 (C) 47 (D) −47
(B)
5 Roots of the quadratic equation 𝑎𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐 = 0 are given by
−𝑏± 𝑏 2 −4𝑎𝑐 𝑏± 𝑏 2 −4𝑎𝑐 −𝑏± 𝑏 2 −2𝑎𝑐 −𝑏± 𝑏 2 −4𝑎𝑐
(A) 𝑥 = (B) 𝑥 = (C) 𝑥 = (D) 𝑥 =
𝑎 2𝑎 𝑎 2𝑎
(B)
6 Nature of the roots of the quadratic equation 𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 + 3 = 0 is?
(A) Equal (B) Unequal (C) Not real (D) None

7 Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?

4 4
(A) (B) (C) 15% (D) 0
3 6
(B)
8 Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma, play a tennis match. It is known that the probability of
Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. What is the probability of Reshma winning the match?
(A) 0.18 (B) 0.28 (C) 0.38 (D) 0.48
(B)
9 The mean of the first ten natural numbers is?
(A) 5.6 (B) 5.5 (C) 4.6 (D) None
(B)
10 If the height of the tower is equal to the length of its shadow, then the angle of elevation of the
sun is?
(A) 30° (B) 45° (C) 60° (D) 90°
11 The distance between the points 0,5 𝑎𝑛𝑑 −5,0 is
(A) 5 (B) 2 5 (C) 5 2 (D) 10
12 The 21st term of the AP whose first two terms are −3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 4 𝑖𝑠?
(A) 17 (B) 137 (C) 143 (D) −143

13 Which term of the AP: 21, 42, 63, 84,... is 210?

(A) 9th (B) 10th (C) 11th (D) 12th
(B)
14 A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that card is not an ace of hearts. The
number of outcomes favourable to E is
(A) 4 (B) 13 (C) 48 (D) 51
15 A box contains 3 blue, 2 white, and 4 red marbles. If a marble is drawn at random from the box,
what is the probability that it will be white is
4 2 3 5
(A) (B) (C) (D)
9 9 7 7
16 If the first term of an AP is –5 and the common difference is 2, then the sum of the first 6 terms
is
(A) 0 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 15
17 Find the coordinates of the point which divides the line segment joining the points (4, – 3) and
(8, 5) in the ratio 3 : 1 internally.
(A) (7,3) (B) (1,7) (C) (3,7) (D)(3, −7)
(B)
18 For the following distribution :
Class 0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25
frequency 10 15 12 20 9
the lower limits of modal class is
(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 30 (D) 35

ASSERTION-REASON BASED QUESTIONS

In the following questions, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of

Reason (R). Choose the correct answer out of the following choices.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false but R is true.
19 Assertion: The mid-point of the line segment joining the points A (–2, 8) and B (– 6, – 4) is (4,2).
𝑥 +𝑥 𝑦 +𝑦
Reason : the midpoint of A(𝑥1 , 𝑦1 ) and B(𝑥2 , 𝑦2 ) is ( 1 2 , 1 2 )
2 2
20 −5 5
Assertion : −5, , 0, … 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.
2 2
Reason : The terms of an Arithmetic Progression cannot have both positive and negative rational
numbers.

SECTION B
(This section comprises of very short answer type-questions (VSA) of 2 marks each)

21 Find the sum of the A.P 2,7,12,…, to 10 terms.

22 Sum and product of the zeroes of a polynomial are −4 𝑎𝑛𝑑 5. Find the polynomial.
OR
If 𝛼 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝛽 are the zeroes of the polynomial 𝑥 2 − 4𝑥 + 1then find the value of 𝛼 2 + 𝛽 2 .
23 Find the coordinates of the point which divides the line segment joining the points (−3, – 3) and
(5, 5) in the ratio 3 : 2 internally.
24 Three coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting:
(i) exactly two heads
(ii) at least one heads
OR
One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting
(i) a king of red colour
(ii) a face card

25 A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their environment awareness

programme, in which they collected the following data regarding the number of plants in
20 houses in a locality. Find the mean number of plants per house.
Number 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14
of plants
Number 1 2 1 5 6 2 3
of houses

SECTION C
(This section comprises of short answer type questions (SA) of 3 marks each)

26 Find the value of a, if the distance between the points A (–3, –14) and B (a, –5) is 9 units.
OR
Find a relation between x and y such that the point (x, y) is equidistant from the point
(3, 6) and (– 3, 4).

27 Solve 2x + 3y = 11 and 2x – 4y = – 24 and hence find the value of ‘m’ for which y = mx + 3.

28 Find the 31st term of an AP whose 11th term is 38 and the 16th term is 73.
OR
Find the sum given below:
−5 + −8 + −11 + ⋯ + −230
29 A survey conducted on 20 households in a locality by a group of students resulted in the
following frequency table for the number of family members in a household:
Family size 1-3 3-5 5-7 7-9 9-11
Number of 7 8 2 2 1
families
Find the mode of the data.
30 Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 𝑥 2 + 7𝑥 + 10, and verify the relationship between
the zeroes and the coefficients.

31 A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles. One marble is taken out of
the box at random. What is the probability that the marble taken out will be
(i) red ?
(ii) white ?
(iii) not green?
 SECTION D
(This section comprises of long answer-type questions (LA) of 5 marks each)

32 Solve the quadratic equation:

1 1
− = 3, 𝑥 ≠ 0,3
𝑥 𝑥−2
OR
The altitude of a right triangle is 7 cm less than its base. If the hypotenuse is 13 cm, find the other
two sides.
33 A tree breaks due to storm and the broken part bends so that the top of the tree touches the
ground making an angle 30° with it. The distance between the foot of the tree to the point where
the top touches the ground is 8 m. Find the height of the tree.
OR
From the top of a 7 m high building, the angle of elevation of the top of a cable tower is 60° and
the angle of depression of its foot is 45°. Determine the height of the tower.

34 The coach of a cricket team buys 7 bats and 6 balls for RS.3800. Later, she buys 3 bats and 5 balls
for RS.1750. Find the cost of each bat and each ball.

35 Find the median of the distribution given below.

Class 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 Total
interval
Frequency 5 8 20 15 7 5 60

SECTION E
(This section comprises of 3 case study/passage-based questions of 4 marks each with two sub-
parts. First two case study questions have three sub parts (i),(ii),(iii) of marks 1, 1, 2 respectively.
The third case study question has two sub parts of 2 marks each.)

36 Case Study 1 :
In an examination hall, students are seated at a distance of 2m from each other, to
maintain social distance due to CORONA virus pandemic. Let three students sit at
point A, B and C whose coordinates are 4, −3 , 7,3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 8,5 respectively.

(i) Find the distance between A and C.

(ii) Find the mid-point of line segment joining the point A and C.
(iii) Find the ratio in which B divides the line segment joining A and C.
Or
If point D divides line joining the point A and C in the ratio 1:2 then find
the coordinates of the point D.
37 Case-Study 2:
A boy is standing on the top of light house. He observed that boat P and boat Q are
approaching the light house from opposite directions. He finds that angle of depression
of boat P is 45° and angle of depression of boat Q is 30°. He also knows that height of the
light house is 100 m.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) What is the measure of ∠APD?
(ii) If ∠YAQ = 30°, then ∠AQD is also 30°, Why?
(iii) Find length of PD
OR
Find length of DQ
38 Case- Study 3:
In a class the teacher asks every student to write an example of A.P two friends geeta and
madhuri write their progressions a -5,-2,1,4,… and 187, 184, 181,…. Respectively. Now, the
teacher asks various students of the class the following questions on these two progressions.
Help students to find the answers of the questions.

(i) Find the sum of common difference of the two progressions.

(ii) Find the sum of first 10 terms of the progression written by geeta .
or
find the 19th term of the progression written by geeta .